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10 thoughts on “Der Wanderfalke (Teil III)”

Birds are such odd creatures, much more violent than we give them credit for. Recently my wife and I were watching a documentary on animals and we found out that certain white pelicans, to feed their young, actually walk into the nesting grounds of another particular bird and swallow their young whole, only to regurgitate partially digested bits for their own babies later. Totally unexpected and we were quite shocked! The animal kingdom is no joke, they play hardball too, which totally betrays their often cute and harmless exteriors.

I know this is an older post now, but I had to update with this little ‘experience’.

My oldest son, my daughter and myself were headed toward the local swap meet when we decided to grab something from the Carl’s Jr. on the way (they boy got out of boot camp and had been craving fast food, go figure). As we rounded the corner into the driveway of the restaurant I saw a crow right in the middle of he drive-thru lane picking at what appeared to be a balled up burger wrapper. If your familiar with Carl’s Jr./Hardees they are white wrappers with yellow and red on them, so I thought nothing of it. As we approached the bird, however, he took flight, grabbing hold of his “wrapper” and taking it with him. All three of us were shocked as we came to realize that the wrapper was, in fact, a bunny rabbit head. Yes, head only. The long ears bobbed along as it flew into the air, landed on a nearby building, stuck the head on some anti-pigeon spikes and proceeded to eat (he just rested them on the spikes, he did not impale the thing, though it couldn’t have made things more awkward). We were all quite taken aback and we laughed at the morbidity of the situation. Certainly not something you see every day!